Clementine gains more and more popularity with its port to KDE4 based upon the Amarok 1.4 player, and the latest version bundles a fair amount of new features. In case you didn’t try it yet, Clementine is a free, cross-platform music player available for Linux, Windows and Mac. Before proceeding let me say that this is a really, really improved release which shows a good amount of work has be put into it.

Let me proceed and list some of the most important new features in this version, put up a few days ago, on December 11:

Clementine still lacks the next and previous buttons in the tag editor window, a feature which (although probably useless to some) is pretty important to me for editing entire tags which are the same for a whole album.

I liked the installation support offered by Clementine. The official website contains builds for various Linux distributions, including Debian Squeeze, Ubuntu Maverick and Lucid and Fedora. There are also two PPAs for Ubuntu, for the stable and development version of Clementine, here and here. To install from it from the PPA, type the following commands in a terminal: